Thomas Blague

[1] He was admitted on 9 September 1570 to the rectory of Braxted Magna in Essex, but was a non-resident.On 2 September 1571, being B.A., he was presented to the church of St. Vedast, Foster Lane, London.On 2 April 1582, at Oxford, being described as 'student in divinity' and one of the chaplains in ordinary to the queen, he supplicated for D.D.. On 1 February 1591, by then D.D., he was installed dean of Rochester in the place of John Coldwell.He had a son named John, who, in his father's lifetime, was a commoner of Oriel College, Oxford.[2] It is a collection of fables in the style of Aesop, and is thought to have drawn on material related to the Dialogus creaturarum.
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